Tiny Tots and Little Tykes Pre-school Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411527628
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- West St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6514570042
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,677,860
- Expenses
- $1,571,597
- Assets
- $2,145,343
- Liabilities
- $46,035
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK VAN (President)
- CATHY BAUMAN (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- MANARAE SCHAAN (Executive Dir.): $110,902 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to provide a loving, wholesome, safe learning environment that nurtures each child in his/her social, emotional and intellectual growth and development and one that encourages each child to develop a good and accurate self-concept. Tiny tots & little tykes is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes as specified in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, or the corresponding section of a future federal tax code. This corporation shall not be operated for profit, but rather shall be operated exclusively for charitable purposes. The specific purpose of tiny tots & little tykes is educational and charitable: educational: to provide quality early education for children ages six (6) weeks through twelve (12) years, by means of a regularly scheduled curriculum that instructs and trains with a view toward enhancing social and intellectual development, employs a regular faculty of qualified teachers and caregive
What it reported doing in 2025
Enrichment/resource program: the organization provided an enrichment/resource program for children at no additional cost, including but not limited to: music, stem (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) taught by experienced teachers; and storytelling, theater, and magic taught by highly-rated independent contractors. Tiny tots also sponsors culturally and socially-enriching field trips for the children as a part of its enrichment/resource program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.8% of revenue deployed · 91.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.